Vijay in hospital

Pokkiri, Prabhudeva’s Tamil debut venture (the movie was earlier directed by Prabhudeva in Telugu and was pronounced as a super hit) as a director starring Vijay – Asin in the lead suffered a setback here.

Pokkiri’s shooting was suspended here following the hero Vijay’s ailment in his eye. Vijay suffered severe pain his eyes during the flick’s shoot and was immediately taken to a private hospital where he was later diagnosed to be having a cyst in his eyes.

The doctors announced that Vijay is completely all right and the cyst was removed after a surgery and that he was advised to take bed rest. Following this, the shoot of Pokkiri has been wrapped up and the shooting will commence after Vijay’s return from his bed rest.